Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How islands recover from devastating storms: Lessons from the Virgin Islands
Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas. Seven people are dead, and that number is expected to rise. It’s going to be a long road ahead for the Caribbean island nation. How will it recover?
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readHurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas. Seven people are dead, and that number is expected to rise. It’s going to be a long road ahead for the Caribbean island nation. How will it recover? We ask Peter Bailey, a journalist and documentary filmmaker from the Virgin Islands. He experienced Hurricanes Irma and Maria two years ago, and made a documentary about that last year called "Paradise Discovered: The Unbreakable Virgin Islanders.”
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- 9:30USC officials eyed prospective students with rich parents
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